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A new disaster has hit local residents in the Russian occupation zone, as the number of victims poisoned by toxic tap water in the town of Makiyivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, has grown to 43 people.

“This morning I’ve been told about four new cases of adult hospitalization (in addition to 39 cases reported earlier),” representative of the Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner in Luhansk and Donetsk regions Pavlo Lysiansky said, TV Channel 112 Ukraine reported. “The spread of any information is being blocked again – they do not let us know anything, hiding the scale of the disaster. I think in reality is much more serious. Doctors in occupied Makiyivka are in a very difficult situation – they do not have enough medicines.”

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